Philippe Croene

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Rome)

Lawyer (Associate)

Philippe Croene is an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Rome, where his practice mainly focuses on different aspects of EU law and competition law, as well as on regulatory issues in the telecommunications and energy sectors and on unfair commercial practices and misleading advertising rules. Philippe Croene is a member of the Rome Bar and joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in 2005, after graduating magna cum laude from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome) in 2004 and obtaining an LL.M. degree with honors from the Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2005. In 2006, he completed a clerkship at the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he focused on European business law. Philippe Croene is a native Italian speaker and he is fluent in English and French.

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On 5 March 2014, the Italian Supreme Court upheld a judgment of the Court of Appeals of Catania, dated 2 May 2006, which rejected a damages claim for alleged abuse of collective dominance consisting in the imposition of unfair prices and other trading conditions, as well as in discriminatory (...)

On 27 January 2014, the Florence Tribunal rejected the appeal that Il Giaggiolo S.r.l. (“Giaggiolo”) brought against a payment order that the Tribunal issued against Giaggiolo, thereby enforcing a clause of a lease agreement that the appellant claimed to be null and void for an alleged breach of (...)

In September 2013, the Italian Supreme Court (‘Court’) issued ten rulings on as many damages actions that several service providers brought against Agenzia del Territorio (the Italian territorial agency; the ‘Agency’). The plaintiffs claimed that the Agency, which was the public sector body (...)

On 8 February 2013, the Italian Supreme Court (the “Court”) quashed a decision by the [Commissione centrale per gli esercenti le professioni sanitarie] (the national commission for healthcare operators; the “National Commission”), which, in turn, had upheld a ruling by the [Ordine dei Farmacisti (...)